moribund

In each case the patient was reported to be 'moribund' when the general practitioner arrived, and resuscitation proved unsuccessful.

No one uses 'moribund' anymore, shame that.

There are at least fifteen competing and mutually aggravational land-title disputes, all dormant for way over a century, so technically moribund- but there are just bound to be loopholes.

He belongs to a period when art, whatever that is, was moribund- it's interesting to look back at copies of Modern painters, Flash art and Studio International of that time to see just how dull and complacent the art world was.